Making Sense of Word Problems Online Course

Description

Is solving word problems a constant struggle for your students? Do they freeze up whenever they’re faced with a story problem or word problem? Never fear! In this course, I will break down word problem structure so you can feel more confident guiding your students and provide meaningful strategies that will help students of all ages (without relying on key words!)

In this course, through jam-packed yet bite-sized teaching videos, you will deepen your own understanding as you explore the different structures of types of word problems. By better understanding the structure yourself, you will be better equipped to help your students. You will also learn how to open up standard textbook problems to make them more purposeful and engaging for your students.

In addition, this course comes with tons of done-for-you printable word problem sets and fun games, allowing you to implement what you learn in the course right away.

You will also receive a certificate of completion for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit.

What’s Covered in This Course:

• The problem with only relying on key words to solve a word problem
• Different problem types and structures for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
• Meaningful strategies you can use to help kids actually understand the situation of the problem
• Ways to open up word problems to create higher order thinking challenges and open ended problems
• What 3-ACT tasks are and how to incorporate these tasks into your lessons